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OT: Bitcoin, Altcoins, NFT's & All Things Crypto

I’m one of the last people that believes buying crypto is a safe and rational investment. I agree that buying crypto meets the definition of an investment. But it’s 100% gambling as it’s not based on any financial metric that can be analyzed. Do I like it? No! Do i think it’s a safe investment? No! Do I own it? Yes! Why? Because I’m “gambling” that someone will pay me more than what I paid. I’m “gambling” that there are lot of people that hope to get rich quick and that there will be more buyers than sellers. To protect my investment, I have sold and taken gains with the goal of playing with house money…… I am almost at that point. I don’t plan on adding. My purchases were all made on one day last January when the ETFs came out. I “gambled”, and I thought it was a safe gamble that the ETFs would benefit the buy/sell ratio and drive the price up. Will the imbalance continue? I don’t have a clue. But if does, great. If it doesn’t, no big deal, as it’s house money that I would be losing.
I totally hear you. I research plenty of “projects” - most of this stuff is a joke and little more than a pump and dump. But I’ve dabbled a bit just to make a few bucks. You can see some interesting gambling trends in society starting with the “predictions” market. How the “predictions” market has been able to avoid being labeled gambling like DraftKings is shocking to me. My kid has high school friends that will bet on almost anything on Polymarket.
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6-foot-7 Rutgers football commit scores 1,000th point day before early enrollment

More kids are going to be cut after spring because we have to get to the roster number of 105. It’s the professionalization of college football.
I think we gotta stop with the word “professionalization”. The process is done, it’s a pro sport now. Just call it what it is

6-foot-7 Rutgers football commit scores 1,000th point day before early enrollment

I know a bunch of kids that did early enrollment last year, missed final months of senior year with friends, no prom, etc., thrown right into the college mix…then were told to hit the transfer portal in December. We hear so many stories about the kids making serious $$$ but there are so many others that are getting cut from teams and pushed out of schools because there is no time for development and coaches can grab a seasoned older player to plug holes whenever they want.
More kids are going to be cut after spring because we have to get to the roster number of 105. It’s the professionalization of college football.

Anyone else notice Gavin?

You are truly the only person on the planet who thinks GG is a better overall athlete than Dylan.

You confirmed what I suspected - you think athleticism is solely limited to jumping and running. Congrats you’re a simpleton.

So you think Dylan’s ability to dribble through traffic, to drive to the hoop and (seemingly effortlessly) get to the rim everytime, his court vision, etc are just skills that can be taught/learned?!?!?

He is uniquely GIFTED in those regards. Those are innate TALENTS. It’s all included in his overall athleticism. Those TALENTS (while certainly honed through practice) simply cannot be taught (it’s why he is a friggin lottery pick).
GG is more athletic yes. Not near the talent. Where you and others are proved wrong is by reiterating that GG is less athletic than almost everyone else in recent memory too, showing you don’t know what the word even means. Read above: “Myles Johnson very athletic” LOL. He’s the least athletic player here in probably 30 years.

GG is more athletic than Dylan in every measure of the word.

Here’s more: notice I didn’t say GG isn’t more athletic than Bailey. Does Bailey have better vision, anticipation, leadership and other irrelevant non physical traits stated above than Harper ? No he doesn’t. But he’s also more athletic than Harper. Would you agree ? Or are you flat earth dumb in that comparison too.

Mulcahy had those non physical talents too. Irrelevant. Not athleticism.

So how come you and others argue that these Harper traits only count as athleticism when comparing him to GG but not to Bailey ?

Take off the homer glasses “Myles” ha ha ha and realize that while Harper is a great player he’s not tremendously athletic.

Look up what the word means since clearly you don’t know.

OT: Bitcoin, Altcoins, NFT's & All Things Crypto

I think I’m pretty practical about it. I had a friend text today saying “I love that we took financial investing and future planning and basically made it blackjack.” My reply was “You've got it backwards. We've taken gambling and called it financial investing.”
I’m one of the last people that believes buying crypto is a safe and rational investment. I agree that buying crypto meets the definition of an investment. But it’s 100% gambling as it’s not based on any financial metric that can be analyzed. Do I like it? No! Do i think it’s a safe investment? No! Do I own it? Yes! Why? Because I’m “gambling” that someone will pay me more than what I paid. I’m “gambling” that there are lot of people that hope to get rich quick and that there will be more buyers than sellers. To protect my investment, I have sold and taken gains with the goal of playing with house money…… I am almost at that point. I don’t plan on adding. My purchases were all made on one day last January when the ETFs came out. I “gambled”, and I thought it was a safe gamble that the ETFs would benefit the buy/sell ratio and drive the price up. Will the imbalance continue? I don’t have a clue. But if does, great. If it doesn’t, no big deal, as it’s house money that I would be losing.
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